Eric Seppanen wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:05:48PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >
> > If you have a framebuffer driver for the video card you shouldn't need
> > to even touch the video bios. Worst case is that you need to tweak it
> > to actually initialize the video card from the completely unitialized
> > state.
>
> Doesn't that mean that you don't get any video until after linuxbios+linux
> has booted? Wouldn't most people like to see progress messages during the
> kernel boot?
Frame buffer device is probably the most first device kernel inits. Actually
it inits framebuffer BEFORE there is any console. So you actually get kernel
message on the monitor really eraly.
Ollie
